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Even though her mom had talked with her about drug dangers, Cassidy took a couple of fingernail-sized tabs of the synthetic hallucinogen known as 25i Friday afternoon. She said 17 other teens did it too.

Walking down the street, the high became a hellish nightmare.

“At that point I started seizing and I stopped and I fell and I hit the concrete,” Cassidy said.

“It was really painful, and after waking up from it my entire body was stiff and tense and it hurt to move,” Cassidy recalls. “And I don't remember actually having the seizure. I had blacked out.”

One of Cassidy's teachers, who had EMT training, was driving by, saw her seizure, stopped to help and call an ambulance. At the hospital, doctors shocked Cassidy's heart after it stopped beating.

“I was gone for about forty-five seconds to a minute and I... I don't know exactly how that happened, but I am extremely lucky to be alive today,” Cassidy said.

The case surfaced Friday evening when an off-duty sheriff's deputy driving on S.W. Woodhaven Drive in Sherwood spotted a 16-year-old girl having a seizure on the side of the road, according to a news release from the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Two other teens were with her.

As deputies stopped and rendered aid to the girl, the other 17-year-old girl began having a seizure.